Critics on Othello Flashcards
M. Scott
“Desire for power and control”
“Evidence for Iago’s hatred for love are everywhere”
P. Seghal
“Jealousy trains us to look with intensity, not accuracy”
“Jealousy is exhausting, it is a hungry emotion and it must be satisfied”
M. Simpsom
“She dies in service of the truth”
M. Mangam
“The general’s black skin proclaims him as an outsider in Venice”
“The old stereotype is always there”
S. Hyman
“I ago is motivated by strong, latent homosexuality”
A. C. Bradley
“It was stupidity and nothing worse”
R. Vanita
“Desdemona is killed by all who see her humiliated and beaten in public and fail to intervene”
H. Fisher
“Romantic love is an obsession, you lose your sense of self…distort reality”
S. L. Coleridge
“Noble nature was wrought on by an accomplished and artful villain”
“Motive-less malignancy” (Jealousy is a growing tumour in Iago and can’t be suppressed)
